Holder for disinfectants



NITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY P. ROBERTS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOLDER FOR DISINFECTANTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ZPatent No. 555,888, dated March3, 1896..

Application filed October 7, 1895. Serial No. 564,845. (No model.)

To (0% whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY P. ROBERTS, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, State of Mas saohusetts, have made certain new and usefulImprovements in Holders for Disinfectants, of which the following is adescription sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any personskilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a frontelevation of my improved holder, the front wall being represented asbroken out; and Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figuresof the drawings.

As is well known, it is customary to employ disinfectants in solid formin urinals and similar places connected with a sewer system or otherflowing-water outlet. This is frequently in the form of balls known asmoth or camphor balls. As they wear away or become accidentally broken,they clog the outlet to the basin and cause an overflow which results inmuch damage.

My invention is designed particularly to overcome this objection and tosupply a device for so containing the disinfectant that it cannot clogthe flow in the basin and yet retain all sanitary effects.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the holder, and B aurinal-basin of ordinary construction.

The body comprises a rectangular box, of metal, provided at its top witha cover and on each side with a tubular slideway O. In each way 0 acoiled spring 9 is disposed. A rectangular clampin g-rod D has its endsfitted to slidein said ways, said ends being provided with buttons f,which rest on the springs and are forced outward thereby.

Interiorly of the body there is a partition 71, forming guideways withthe walls of said body. These ways w open at their lower ends into apocket or receptacle j, formed on the lower end of the body andprojecting in front thereof. The walls of this pocket are perforated atm.

On top of the partition 71. there is an in Verted-V-shaped partition 11for the purpose of directing the balls into the ways 10.

In the use of my improvement the device is disposed in the urinal-basinB, the rod D being depressed and disposed under the lip m of said basin.This holds the apparatus firmly in position, the pocket j being disposedat the outlet of the basin.

The body being filled with the camphor balls 76 they run down and fillthe pocket j, where they are subject to the moisture in the urinalthrough the perforations m and dissolved for the purposes specifiedwithout interfering with or clogging the outlet of the basin in a mannerwhich will be understood without a more explicit description.

It-wil1 be understood that the form of the apparatus may be varied tosuit the different forms of basin employed, and means other than thatshown may be employed for detachably securing it in said basin withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus explained myinvention, what I claim is 1. Adisinfectant-holder comprising a body providedwith a perforated pocket;ways connecting said body and pocket; and devices for detachablysecuring. said holder to a basin of the class described all beingcombined and arranged to operate substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described disinfectant-holder comprising a body; aspring-pushed clamping-rod thereon for securing said body to the articleto be disinfected; a foraminous pocket on said body; and ways fordischarging the disinfectant from said body to said pocket substantiallyas specified.

3. The body, A, provided with the partition, 1', and ways, w, incombination with the perforated pocket, j, into which said ways open;and the spring-pushed rod, D, all being arranged to operatesubstantiallyas set forth.

HENRY P. ROBERTS.

"Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, EDWARD KEENAN.

